![]() ![]() This book offers for your consideration a partial redesign of the American government that really fixes in just the right way what is really wrong with it. Most political correctives offered today fail both at overcoming plutocracy and at adequately achieving and securing the freedom of the individual. Correcting this imbalance of power requires a partial redesign of our government. Until the fundamental imbalance of political power that overwhelmingly favors the wealthy is corrected, all attempts at repairing our nation’s many ills are doomed to very limited success or outright failure. ![]() It continues to favor similar others-powerful wealthy elites, the plutocrats-through the generations to this day. While creating a constitution and government in the name of all of the people and claiming to favor no particular faction, the founders-fifty-five powerful wealthy men-in fact wrote a constitution and created a government that overwhelmingly favored themselves and similar others. The real problem is the political system itself, the fundamental design and structure of our government. The problem is not about people it is not about who currently occupies political office, “our” party or candidates verses others. He laughingly exclaims, “You may take my Right hand or my Left hand, but you always get me!”Īpplying superficial band aids to our government such as reforming campaign financing, creating term limits, cleaning up scandals, kicking the current “bums” out of office, or struggling with third parties or independent candidates will never fix the problem. A political cartoon comes to mind that illustrates our true situation: A giant wealthy fat cat complete with a top hat, a big cigar, and a cynical smile is standing legs apart and arms spread outward above the many tiny people below, the electorate. The economic bottom half and its needs are effectively excluded from government and its decisions. The government remains perpetually populated by the wealthy and wealth-serving who mostly haggle over how to best manage their plutocracy. But the principal electoral choices have already been made by the wealthy and by the preliminary electoral process long before the electoral process ever reaches the vast majority of the electorate. ![]() The existence of two major political parties and a few minor ones at times gives the illusion and feeds the myth that America is a democracy and we have real choices during elections. Most of the populace is effectively disenfranchised and rendered powerless while individual freedom and economic security are increasingly crushed by the twin assaults of ever growing governmental and corporate power. Elections, offices, and the favors of government are bought just like any other commodity. Our government was created by, is populated by, and first and best serves wealthy elites that hold a perpetual hegemony of power and wealth through the generations, much to the detriment of the rest of the populace.Įlections are left to a marketplace, mass media, and political parties that are mostly owned and operated by the wealthy. Most of America’s many political, economic, and social ills are caused or aggravated by its most fundamental problem: America is not really a democracy but a plutocracy overwhelmingly dominated and operated by a wealthy few. ![]()
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